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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 217-290.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unless all nations band together to face aggressors, what is inevitable?
(a) Capitulation of pacific nations.
(b) Triumph of evil.
(c) Universal domination and subjugation.
(d) Universal anarchy and terror.

2. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?
(a) The reality of spirit.
(b) The 5th dimension.
(c) The rotuse.
(d) The field.

3. How does Einstein characterize people who read only newspapers and modern literature?
(a) Myopic and snobbish.
(b) Undereducated.
(c) Wise.
(d) Mentally frail.

4. Who is is the "noblest man of our times" and a natural leader?
(a) J. Menniger.
(b) The Dutch physicist H. A. Lorentz.
(c) The engineer Joseph Popper-Lynkaeus.
(d) Mahatma Ghandi.

5. With what is Judaism concerned?
(a) The proper worship of God.
(b) The return of Jews to their homeland.
(c) The hope of the afterlife.
(d) Moral attitudes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though science can produce knowledge and means of action, what can it not do?

2. When does Einstein get in touch with his Jewish heritage?

3. What does Einstein warn the Progressive Education Association?

4. What has made international peace a matter of life and death and an ethical imperative for everyone?

5. What do Faraday/Maxwell show exist in "free space"?

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